The European Union (EU) shipping industry's fleet grew year-on-year between 2010 and 2020. The most considerable growth in fleet size was recorded in 2011 when the EU fleet increased by 8.5 percent year-on-year. In 2020, the size of the EU fleet increased by 2.8 percent compared with the previous year.
The EU shipping industry includes the United Kingdom and Norway.
Year-on-year (YoY) change in the size of the European Union (EU-28) shipping industry's fleet from 2010 to 2020
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The source adds the following supplementary note: "Results are reported for the ‘EU shipping industry’ in 2018, which is defined as the industry within the 28 EU member states including the United Kingdom,
plus Norway."
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